About 3 years ago, I got bitten by a baby copperhead. I had 2 antivenom shots and stayed 1 night in the hospital. The bill was $66,600.00.
Are you kidding me? That’s outrageous. What I’m after is the cumulative effect of goverment intervention in health care and I have found nothing that answers this in my research. Isn’t it logical that medicare and medicaid subsidized health care that ramps up demand and this led to the HMO Act while legislation like EMTALA provided an unfunded mandate for emergency care regardless of ability to pay or legal status that again drives up demand for medical care..if any freepers have any good research, please semd it to me.
Incredible!
Costs head for the sky wherever the government/rat/lawyer complex makes the rules.
Was the anti-venom the most expensive part? I have heard that there is a shortage of the serum (sp?) these days.
SF